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12/05/2022

Ubiquiti UID and Microsoft 365: SSO with your VPN

One Identity My home network has been Ubiquiti Unifi stuff for years now and I am quite happy with their products. It didn’t fail me during numerous video conferencing calls since March 2020 (you know why…). Now that I am increasingly away from home, I do use the L2TP VPN solution more often to acces my home resources. Unfortunately, this...

Azure/Office 365 Comments: 0

30/10/2020

Easily list mail DNS records via this PowerShell script

I get to investigate quite some mail environments in my work as a consultant. At a certain point you see some patterns emerging. One of those patterns is the correct configuration of mail related DNS records. It’s one of the first things I check when I must check an unfamiliar environment. I have talked about this anti-spoofing topic on numerous...

Compliance/Exchange/Office 365/Security/SMTP Comments: 5

30/09/2020

Exchange Online finally has plus addressing!

During the virtual Microsoft Ignite 2020, the Exchange Product Group announced the general availability of plus address support in Exchange Online. This has been a long request feature; I blogged about this in 2014 and Microsoft already announced it during Microsoft Ignite 2019. But now it’s here! Considering enabling Plus Addressing And if your re-read my 2014 post, you might...

Exchange/Management/Office 365/Uncategorized Comment: 1

16/07/2020

How To: Exchange Authentication Policies

There are several ways how you can protect and limit access to Exchange Online. Conditional Access, Client Access Rules, the older ActiveSync Device rules and, the topic of this post, Authentication Policies. These policies are available in Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2019 since CU2. This article will show you how to implement this. Why use Authentication Policies? Authentication Policies...

Exchange/Office 365/Security Comments: 4

24/07/2018

Exchange Server 2019 Preview is available!

Today the Microsoft Exchange Product Group announced the release of the Exchange Server 2019 public preview! They also lifted the veil on some of the new features/capabilities etc. of this new major build of Exchange Server. Where can I download the Preview bits? Click here to download Exchange Server 2019 Preview. Warning: These are Preview bits and are not meant...

Exchange/Exchange 2019/Office 365/Preview/Beta Comments: 0

30/03/2018

I will be speaking at ExpertsLive NL 2018!

And some other news dropped in my mailbox this week: I will be speaking together with Jetze Mellema at ExpertsLive NL 2018 on 19th June! During that session we will talk about Exchange migrations; “Destination unknown, migrating mailboxes from somewhere to anywhere“. What will we be speaking about exactly? “Migrating mailboxes. Something every Exchange admin has done. Whether it be...

Events/Exchange/Office 365 Comments: 0

19/02/2018

Free community event in Maarssen (NL) this Thursday evening

What? A free community event in a first collaboration between Dutch and Belgian Exchange, Skype and Office 365 experts. There will be two sessions, but before and after sessions you are free to talk with any of them about Exchange, Skype for Business/Teams and Office 365. When? This Thursday evening starting at 18:00. Where? Maarssen (near Utrecht) at the Fujitsu...

Events/Exchange/Office 365 Comments: 2

10/01/2018

Office 365 to enforce TLS 1.2 per October 15, 2020

Update 21 July 2020 Microsoft has set a new date for the deprecation of TLS1.0 and 1.1, after a previous postponement due to the pandemic. You can find it in the Microsoft 365 Message Center message MC218794, which also references this Docs article. From October 15, 2020 onward, Microsoft will gradually enforce TLS1.2 on Office 365 services. Note that this...

Exchange/Office 365/Security Comments: 23

20/04/2017

I’ll be speaking at E-Communications & Collaboration Day 2017 (BE-COM.eu) on May 3rd 2017

In a few weeks, I’ll be travelling to Novotel Leuven in my neighboring country Belgium for the E-Communications & Collaboration Day 2017, a full-day (May 3rd 2017) of expert presentations and content about Office 365, Exchange, Skype for Business and related technologies. During this day, I will be presenting “Securing Exchange Online”: In this session, Dave Stork will go through...

Exchange/Office 365/Security Comments: 0

10/04/2017

Creating an Activity alert in Office 365

Within Office 365 you can use Audit Logging to monitor specific actions admins and users take. It’s comparable with Auditing within Exchange, but for most of all actions available in your Office 365 tenant. However, you need to do a search to find those actions perhaps long after the fact. That might be adequate for most organizations, but it would...

Office 365/Security Comments: 0

31/03/2017

Can I place my Exchange hybrid management server in Azure and use Azure Domain Services?

As some might know (although I and others have to repeat this regularly…), if you enable directory synchronization from your on-premises Active Directory (AD) and you migrate all you Exchange mailboxes to Exchange Online you still require an Exchange server to manage mail(box) objects. It is the only supported solution, even though some use third party tooling or ADSIedit. Luckily...

Active Directory/Azure/Exchange/Exchange 2013/Exchange 2016/Management/Office 365 Comments: 10

13/07/2015

Cheat Sheet: Setting Exchange Mailbox User Permissions via PowerShell

One of the things I get asked about quite a lot, is how you can set specific permissions in Exchange Server and Exchange Online. Most cases the Management Console (in 2010) or the Exchange Admin Center (EAC, Exchange 2013 & 2016 and Online) provide most basic permissions like Full Access, Send As and Send On Behalf. However, sometimes an admin...

Exchange/Exchange 2010/Exchange 2013/Office 365 Comments: 2

15/04/2015

Azure Active Directory Synchronization: Object Matching

This post is the fifth in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Object Matching. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 1 Filtering, Part 2 Alternate Logon ID Object Matching and Joining Object matching or joining is relevant if you have multiple Active Directory (AD) forests you want to...

Active Directory/Office 365 Comment: 1

10/04/2015

Azure Active Directory Synchronization: Filtering, Part 2

This post is the fourth in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Filtering. Originally I’ve planned to make this one post, but in my opinion it became to large and complex thus again a part 2. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 1 Object Matching Alternate Logon...

Active Directory/Office 365 Comments: 0

06/04/2015

Azure Active Directory Synchronization: Filtering, Part 1

This post is the third in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Filtering. Originally I’ve planned to make this one post, but in my opinion it became too large and complex thus again a part 2. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 2 Object Matching Alternate Logon...

Active Directory/Office 365 Comments: 4

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